时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台8月


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It's been a mediocre 1 summer so far for Hollywood box office numbers - down about 11 percent from last summer. But one movie has had remarkable 2 staying power.


(SOUNDBITE OF RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS' "WONDER WOMAN'S WRATH")


CORNISH: "Wonder Woman" opened 10 weeks ago and is still playing in more than a thousand theaters. Most movies stay in theaters for just a couple of weeks. NPR's Ted 3 Robbins filed this report.


(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WONDER WOMAN")


GAL 4 GADOT: (As Diana) Only love can truly save the world.


TED ROBBINS, BYLINE 5: Not the usual wisecrack out of a modern superhero's mouth. And we know Wonder Woman is - pardon the oxymoron - no ordinary superhero, not on screen and not at the box office. She's about to surpass $400 million in North American ticket sales. Add in international box office, and she's nearly doubled that.


PAUL DERGARABEDIAN: Well, it's obliterated 6 expectations.


ROBBINS: That's Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst 7 for global media measurement company comScore. "Wonder Woman" is the first female standalone superhero movie directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.


DERGARABEDIAN: For this movie to kind of break through that ceiling and prove that there are no stereotypes 8 when it comes to making movies. The fact that we even have to have that discussion is sort of ridiculous, that can a female director possibly direct a big-budget action superhero movie? Well, that question has been resoundingly answered. Now, they made it look kind of easy. That doesn't mean every time out of the gate you're going to have this kind of result. But "Wonder Woman 2" is already greenlit. It's not a billion-dollar movie worldwide, but it's meant so much more than that. And really, as it gets close to 800 million worldwide, it's a total winner.


ROBBINS: "Wonder Woman's" staying power has as much to do with its message as it does with its quality and fun as a movie.


DERGARABEDIAN: "Wonder Woman" is a film that generated goodwill 9 on so many levels.


ROBBINS: But it's still not the No. 1 movie of 2017. That's the live-action version of "Beauty And The Beast." Apparently 10, a sword and shield is not yet a match for a tale as old as time and a talking candlestick. Ted Robbins, NPR News, Culver City.



adj.平常的,普通的
  • The student tried hard,but his work is mediocre. 该生学习刻苦,但学业平庸。
  • Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
vt.翻晒,撒,撒开
  • The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
  • She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
n.姑娘,少女
  • We decided to go with the gal from Merrill.我们决定和那个从梅里尔来的女孩合作。
  • What's the name of the gal? 这个妞叫什么?
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
v.除去( obliterate的过去式和过去分词 );涂去;擦掉;彻底破坏或毁灭
  • The building was completely obliterated by the bomb. 炸弹把那座建筑物彻底摧毁了。
  • He began to drink, drank himself to intoxication, till he slept obliterated. 他一直喝,喝到他快要迷糊地睡着了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
  • Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
  • It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调,我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.善意,亲善,信誉,声誉
  • His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里对所有人都充满着爱心。
  • We paid £10,000 for the shop,and £2000 for its goodwill.我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店,两千英镑买下了它的信誉。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
学英语单词
AA-D
acoustical reciprocal theorem
aldolic
amphidromic centre
antibrachial
antipigeon
Ariyoshi Sawako
arraigners
auroral spectroscopy
avoes
back-pinched saw
balance desiccator
balanced and nested grid file
bangara r.
bezafibrates
blow weak
bottom population
butyric acid allyl ester
cabbage bug
Canonbie
central progressive retinal atrophy
Cheleritrin
claretians
coherent reflection
Colentina, R.
congealed salads
dataposts
deferiprone
dilatative
dinas brick
dipper sheave block
display update
doctor-blade process
eadish
eighthest
FORTRAN-like language
frame-slot-facet access path
gamma-emitting isotope
goodrow
great granddaughter
groundfished
Gynostemma aggregatum
Haemaccel
heartfeltness
horfs
houdinis
ice age meteorology
imaginary beings
inducing charge
inverse projection
isometric form
Jansen clause
Jarovit
lay down something
Maihar
malvertisements
middlings elevator
MP (maintenance prevention)
multiple-warhead
nominal orbital position
Noninsured plans
north star
notus
Novi Iskǔr
osyritin
oxidative initiation
palato-quadrate bone
quinuclidines
recapitulation theory
redound to
repressory
Ribaga's organ
road construction machine
sarcoidotic
scrotal septum
Sengés
sextonships
shock synthesis
smokeball
soda-Beryl
specific rule
Spodnje Hoče
SPOF
store rent expense
subsidence transient
telegraph post
There you are
thoracic cage
throat distemper
tvers
unascended
Uncaria rhynchophylloides
usage profile
vapor-phase electrolytic deposition
verglas
vertical cross cutting saw
vindicatresses
weak condition
whammed
worserness
yarny
zoocecidium